THE LONG OLD ROAD IN CHINA.. By Langdon varner. - (Arrowsmith.
16s.)--Mr. Warner is a Harvard rchaeologiit who was sent by his University in 1924 to study Buddhist. frescoes- in the cave chapels at • Tun Huang, dr the Turkestan :border, which were made known to the orld by Sir Aurel Stein. He also visited the deserted ngolian city of Edzina, which Marco Polo saw six centuries In this uncommonly readable book he describes the "111(T,- following the ancient route by which in past ages hula sent out her silk. and 'brought back amber from the tattle. He and his.compunion suffered 'many. privations but now to no harm. The .next year, however, when he repeated
the journey, he found that exaggerated accounts of the Shanghai riot had made the people hostile, even in remote Kamm Mr. Warner's narrative shows incidentally that the framework of the Chinese administration survives, however imperbo it. may be in detail. He confirms all that Sir Aurel Stein has said about the beauty of the fading frescoes at Tun Huang
relics of a long lost art which reflect the austere charm of pristine Buddhism.
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